3D Room Designer 3D Room Designer Drawing Manual

Drawing Manual 3D Room Designer lets you easily create stunning interior designs. This manual explains the 3D Room Designer drawing tool. How to create great interiors designs and how to work with your profile.

Topic Page Topic Page

1. Drawing interface 2 5. Adding furniture 15-16

2. Drawing rooms 3-9 1. Searching and adding elements 1. Drawing rooms 2. Different types of elements

2. Adding doors 6. Adding wall art 17 3. Adding windows 3. Adding a view 10 7. Using the camera 18

4. Architectural 11-12 elements

5. Decorating 13-14

1. Adding floor textures

2. Wall finishing

3. Custom wall art

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1 Drawing interface 2.1 Drawing rooms

An overview of your screen when you’re drawing a room Rooms are drawn as one rectangular space, or wall by wall. The room can then be adjusted to the desired shape and size, splitting walls dragging walls or corners of rooms. To your Profile Go to your profile to manage your rooms, 3D renders, export photos.

· Choose ‘build room’ Library search Save options | Undo & redo | Help Units & Zoom button in left sidebar.

You see a lot of tabs appear and the Walls are higlighted.

· You have 2 options: draw your space wall by wall or drag an entire room onto your drawing area.

Tip: You can also import a floorplan made in Floorplanner! See page 22.

Drawing wall by wall

Click the first icon in the wall section.

It will let you draw a room wall by wall by placing each corner with a click. This gives you a lot of freedom of shape.

Draw each wall and finish your room by click on the first corner. An Sidebar menu Tools Room design Camera & 3D preview enclosed space will automatically Your draw your The 3D preview is created fill up with a texture. From here you can: room in top from the camera position Draw rooms view. in the room NB: Notice that a sketchy 3D view Add Doors & windows of your room appears in the small window Add a scenery in the top right. This is Add Architectural & Garden items the view seen from the camera. Find Furniture Find Floor textures etc Add custom wall art 2 3 How to draw in 3D Room Designer How to draw in 3D Room Designer

2.1 Drawing rooms 2.1 Drawing rooms

Drag & Drop an entire room Adjusting rooms

Choose a room shape in the list To change the size of your room, simply of room shapes resembling the move your mouse over a wall, and click room you want to create. and drag it. Note the sizes appearing along your walls you help you Just drag the shape onto the canvas. This is a quick method for simple shaped rooms. Tip: units can be set in the top right corner, next to the zoom.

Dragging a wall corner lets you easily change the shape of a room.

Adjusting walls

When you click on a wall, the sidebar will show the wall properties. At this moment it only shows the width, height and thickness. See page 18 for wall art.

NB: Changing the height of one wall will change the height of all walls, including the ceiling height.

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2.1 Drawing rooms 2.2 Adding doors

Splitting a wall Let’s add some doors to your rooms.

Click the green icon to split the wall. Adding doors and openings The wall will be split in the middle. Drag the node to anywhere you want. We’re first going to create a large opening in the wall You can click the corner to between the 2 rooms. Openings start a drawing walls directly work the same as a doors. from it. 1) Click Doors in the room build layout.

Creating a second room

1) Go to the Build room 2) Find the opening icon and layout with: drag it on top of a wall.

2) Click the draw wall icon in the side bar.

3) Click on a wall or wall corner, to start a new wall.

4) Drag your mouse and click where you need to add a wall corner.

5) Clicking on an existing wall or wall 3) To modify the opening, just corner will end the drawing process. click it. You can set the Width and Height in the side bar.

NB: Notice that you can also see options to colour the door or window frames Once enclosed, your second room will get a separate flooring.

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2.2 Adding doors 2.3 Adding windows

Windows will create light in your room. Not only in the real world, but also in the Click the build icon to generated 3D images. The more and larger the windows, the lighter the room. select more doors.

Drag two glazed panel door on the Click the build icon exterior wall. This will give a nice view to to select windows. the outdoors, and let some light in. Search the windows in the side bar and drag in onto your wall.

Click the glazed panel door in your plan to see that in the side bar you can set the direction of the door hinges.

NB: Notice that the 3D quickview shows Click the window in your plan the doors, but not the light coming to see that in the side bar you through the glass. This can set the height and change will show in the 3D photo. the window frame colour.

Also you see a green and red icon. This is to duplicate or remove your window.

NB: Notice that the 3D quickview Time to add some windows shows the windows, but not the light coming through the glass. This will show in the 3D photo.

Now let’s add a nice view. That’s what we have windows for, right?

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3 Adding a view 4 Architectural elements

Our photo option let’s you upload your own images. This can be a 3D Room Designer has a special library of elements to add the architectural scenery, a view to the street, piece of wall art or a texture. details of a room. Think of stairs, beams, columns, fireplaces, skirting, etc.

There are two ways to upload a photo, Click the build icon from the side bar and from your profile. and go to the architectural section.

Uploading a Photo Here you will find various items to create the architectural basics. Click the icon called “Populate your list” and select the Photos Object types section in the side bar. Note that some objects behave differently than others.There Click “Upload image” are 5 types of objects: and pick the image that you stored on your 1) Floor items. Anything will appear on computer, top of these items. (i.e. heightend floors, glossy floor tiles) 2) Items that rest on floor Applying a Photo as Scenery items (ie fireplaces) 3) Items that rest on type 2 items Your image will appear in the side bar. 4) Wall items. These will stick to When you grab & drag it you see a wall and can be given a distance 2 icons appear in the top right. from the ground. (radiators, window Drag & release it onto the second sills, skirting, diagonal beams) one to apply it to the scenery. 5) Ceiling items. These will stick to the ceiling. (like ceiling beams, see example).

Now this image will be visible through your windows when your render is updated in your profile. Also you’ll receive an email notification with a link.

For applying photos to your wall, options with wall art, see section ...

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4 Architectural elements 5 Decorating your room

There are various categories of texture. They can be applied to walls, ceilings and floors. Searching

Another way to find elements is by using the search option. Just Click the decorate icon type in “ Stairs” for instance. next to your sidebar.

All items with stairs in the name You’ll find a list of will appear finishings in the side bar.

Let’s click on the wallpaper section.

Scroll away until you find something of Now just drag your item from your liking. Now just drag the item you the sidebar into your plan. like from the sidebar onto your walls. Notice your walls get a different color.

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5 Decorating your room 6 Adding furniture

Discover the enormous library of furniture and other interior elements. You can also apply a texture to a ceiling or to all walls at once. When you drag a texture from the side bar, you see 2 icons appearing in the top right. Drag the Click the sofe icon to pull texture on top of one and release it. up the furniture section.

You can browse through the categories and subcategories, or you can type a keyword in the top left.

We just added a nice rug, now we’re going to search find us some chairs, so we type ‘chair’ in the sidebar.

Save your room using the ‘Save’ or ‘Save As’ option. After a short while, you’ll find We want a black chair, so we also specify the rendered room in your profile page, or a color in the grey section. via the link in an email update.

Just drag a chair you like into your plan.

When you click on the chair, you can rotate, duplicate or remove it, and you can see the specific details.

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6 Adding furniture 7 Adding wall art

Object types A special option in 3D Room Designer is adding your own wall art.

Note that some objects behave differently than others. There Adding wall art are 5 types of objects: See chapter 3 on adding a 1) Floor items. Anything will appear scenery to find out how to on top of these items. upload your own image. (i.e. rugs or heightend floors) Click the list icon to add a 2) Floor furniture (Like chairs, tables piece of wall art. cupboards) They will stand on floor items. 3) Items that rest on floor furniture. Drag your picture onto a wall. In a 4) Wall items. These will stick to second you’ll see the picture appear a wall and can be given a distance on the wall in the 3D preview. from the ground. (picture frames, wall art, skirting and wall lights) 5) Ceiling items. These will stick to the ceiling. (like pendant lamps etc, ) Now click the wall. You see details of your wall in the side bar, including a square with displaying a part of your image.

Drag the image all the way to the top left, until you see a little square handler in the bottom corner. By dragging the image and dragging the square, you can resize your wall art to any size you want.

Save your plan and your wall art will bring a nice touch to your room!

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8 Using the camera

The 3D photo of your room is determined by the position of your camera. You can drag your camera to any position in your room and then rotate it by the handlers in front of it.

The camera with handlers. The camera preview image.

When you select it, you also see a side view of the camera in the sidebar. Drag this camera up or down to move the camera up or down in the room. Drag the arrows in front of it to tilt it down or upwards.

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